Lynne is an award winning educator with experience and credentials in kinesiology and special education. Suire has been a small business owner and manager for over twenty years. She has been actively involved in community volunteer activities. She served as chair of a not for profit foundation board serving the deaf community of Louisiana, promoted events for cancer services in the community and also chaired a 400 member sports association. An amateur athlete, Lynne represented her state as champion in tennis at National Senior Olympic competitions in Virginia Beach, Pittsburg, Louisville and Houston. She has taught in public and parochial schools and won the outstanding student award for educators at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.